Alessandra in Love

by Robert Kaplow

Book Overview

Driven by her romantic dreams, sixteen-year-old Alessandra reveals through the pages of her journal how she is mesmerized by the self-centered musician Wyn, "in spite of everything."

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064470539
• ISBN13: 9780064470537
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.2" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Too Tantalizing for Teens

A bit too saucy for teens...but it absolutely hits the spot for a lonely, widowed middle-aged woman! I was captivated by the romance of the two young lovers. Although I feel that this book is slightly too sexually perverse for the young adult audience, those of us yearning to feel the flame of youthful romance will find it absolutely mezmerising.

Alessandra in love

It's just like real realationships bettween young high school kids.Alessandra was in love with a guy named Wyn and they went out like boyfriend and girlfriend.At first I thought it was about a young girl that likes punk rock music and likes to dresses like a punk rocker and she likes a guy that likes classical music and dresses very nice. I thought that the well dressed guy wouldn't like the punk rock girl it turns out there going out. They have realife situations and they have to solve them. Alessandra's friend first found out she was suprised and couldn't belive it.I think it's a wounderful book but I think 7th graders and up should read it because it deals with adult stuff.

Very well-written and quite pleasant; a gem of its genre.

I came across this book in my sweetheart's bookcase not long after we began dating. I never gave it much thought, and certainly didn't consider picking it up to read and enjoy. But one day I found myself scanning the bookcases for something light to read, and decided to go for this book. I'm a bit old for the young adult books, but I remember reading them quite avidly. None of the books I read when I was younger compare to Alessandra In Love. The main character is instantly recognizable -- you had someone in your high school just like her, I'll bet -- and doesn't quite fit the phrase "main character" so much as "star of the show." I was amazed at how well Kaplow captured the mind of a teenage girl. Reading the story without knowing the author, you would think it was written by Alessandra herself, rather than a male English teacher who once had his own rock band. Alessandra In Love is an exquisite book, and although it is a fast read for adults, it is certainly an engrossing novel for the young adult set.

A simply wonderful read for young adults...and parents.

The author has captured the adolescent female voice in a way that will leave you impressed. The book is able to bring you back to those horrid adolescent years in a way that will make you remember them fondly. Alessandra is a character young readers will truly identify with, and one parents will see enough fine qualities in to be pleased to see their kids reading.I have read all of Kaplow's books. They are clever and beautifully crafted. He is the finest writer of young adult fiction on the planet.